Quality and Safety
The University of California at Los Angeles Health System (UCLAHS) is settling potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules for $865,500 said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights.
Satisfied and engaged employees are essential if healthcare human resources departments are to hit the goal of improving patient satisfaction and safety, said an industry panel during a webinar Thursday reflecting on a newly released survey of healthcare HR professionals.
Physicians working under contract with the federal government practice less defensive medicine than their private sector peers, according to a new survey by Atlanta-based clinical staffing organization, Jackson Healthcare.
In a deal that strengthens its presence in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states, Eagle Hospital Physicians announced today its acquisition of hospitalist company PrimeDoc Management Services.
Three northeast Ohio health systems have created a for-profit company to aid the success of joint ventures in a competitive healthcare market.
In its June Health Tracking Poll, Kaiser Family Foundation found that Americans generally do not have confidence in Congress or private insurers to keep Medicare financially sound.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded more than $352 million to continue improving the disaster preparedness of hospitals and healthcare systems around the nation.
The satellite emergency department market is doing well, and from what I have seen, as attractive to patients as hospitals looking to implement them.
A 2010 Government Accountability Office survey of physicians who serve children found that physicians have a harder time referring their pediatric patients in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to specialty care than they do when they refer children covered by private insurance.
As more Americans are visiting emergency rooms, the number of them around the country is dwindling. According to a recent Chicago Sun-Times article, the number of ERs in non-rural areas in the U.S. fell 27 percent between 1990 and 2009.